From concept to monument time and costs of construction in the ancient world : papers in honour of Janet DeLaine / edited by Simon J. Barker, Christopher Courault, Javier Á. Domingo, Dominik Maschek.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2023]
Descriptionxiv, 426 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm.
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Other author/creatorBarker, Simon J. https://isni.org/isni/0000000037977086.
Other author/creatorCourault, Christopher.
Other author/creatorDomingo Magaña, Javier Á., 1978. https://isni.org/isni/0000000119348478.
Other author/creatorMaschek, Dominik. https://isni.org/isni/0000000071297375.
Other author/creatorDeLaine, Janet. https://isni.org/isni/0000000063069460.
SeriesArchaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology. ^A1259174
Contents Preface. Visionary and pragmatic : studying the nuts and bolts of Roman architecture / Simon Barker and Dominik Maschek -- From Tenney Frank to Janet DeLaine : Roman architecture and economic history / Dominik Maschek -- Beyond labour figures : the 'hidden' costs of stoneworking and their application in architectural energetics / Simon J. Barker and Ben Russell -- Reconstructing the construction process in Hispania : epigraphy as a source / Santiago Sánchez de la Parra Pérez -- Issues arising from inheritance tax applied to testamentary legacies : legal aspects of estimating the value of Roman construction projects / Grzegorz Jan Blicharz -- Demolitions, collapses, and the control of the housing market in Rome / Marguerite Ronin -- La construcción del poder omeya. Recursos, costes y ciclo productivo arquitectónico de Madīnat al-Zahrā' (The construction of the umayyad power. resources, costs and architectural production cycle of Madīnat al-Zahrā') / Eneko Lopez-Marigorta and Christopher Courault -- How to define the 'status' of stonemasons employed in a rock-hewn worksite in the medieval period : reflexions and hypotheses / Anaïs Lamesa and Michael Gervers -- The energetics of earth and turf construction in the Roman world / J. Riley Snyder, Ben Russell, Tanja Romankiewicz, Christopher T.S. Beckett -- Quarrying megaliths in Heliopolis (Baalbek, Lebanon) : the Jupiter Temple and the Hajjar al Hibla Quarry / Jeanine Abdul Massih -- Quarrying at Mons Claudianus : costs and time as organisational concerns (?) / Alfred M. Hirt -- From extraction to transport : technical and management aspects of quarries of building stone / Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M. -- L'evoluzione costruttiva della 'parte alta' di Tarraco in epoca romana : alcune osservazioni sulla costruzione del cosiddetto Foro Provinciale / Maria Serena Vinci -- Labouring and its costs during the Aegean Late Bronze Age / Ann Brysbaert -- Building accounts, monumental construction projects, and labour rates in the Classical and Hellenistic periods / Jari Pakkanen -- On toolmarks, sequence of carving, and labour quantification in Roman stone carving : the case of Heroon III at Miletus / Natalia Toma -- Il Peristilio Inferiore della oDomus Augustanao sul Palatino : organizzazione del lavoro e calcolo dei costi di un'impresa imperiale / Francesca Caprioli, Alessandro Mortera, Patrizio Pensabene, Javier Á. Domingo -- Quantifying the forum of Pompeii : building economics, material, and labour / Cathalin Recko -- Pompeian wall painting in figures : labour and materials / Francesca Bologna -- The amphitheatres of Regio X -Venetia et Histria : the impact of stone supplying cost on ancient construction processes / Caterina Previato -- Templi romani giganteschi in Asia Minore : problemi di costi e di finanziamento / Paolo Barresi -- Diocletian's mausoleum in the imperial palace of Split : a review of its architecture and an estimate of its financial cost / Javier Á. Domingo and Daniela Matetić Poljak.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
LanguageContributions chiefly in English, with one in Spanish and three in Italian; abstracts in English.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023553757
ISBN9781789694222 (pbk.)
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